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The paper primarily examines the key reasons why the terrorist attacks on American targets at the beginning of 21st century are considered an epochal event, in order to proceed to the analysis the issue of the epochal nature of the reponse to the aforementioned terrorist attacks, chosen by United States, whith the indispensable support of international community. Altought the respective terrorist attacks indicated the need to establish a new proactive security philosophy, which implied with a doctrinal turn and organizational-functional redesign of the security systems of many Western democracies, the title of the paper obliged us to put in the focus of it the war on terrorism, that was declared immediately after September 11, and which, considering the nature of this phenomenon, implied by suspendig the understanding of the war in the traditional sense and introducing in security agenda his revised understanding that is not based on temporal and spatial determinants. Starting from the fact that two decades have passed since the official declaration of the war on terrorism, as well as that were many scientific discussions about whether the decision of the United States and its coalition partners to face with an unconventional threat like terrorism with armed force was appropriate, anticipating that the war on terrorism will have extremely counterproductive consequences in the form of its growth and internationalization, we tried to determine the basis of such forecasts relying on specific indicators presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]